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This is a very uplifting, pleasant story that permeates with warmth and positive feelings all through. A boost of this kind of decent energy is what people need much more of, even though I enjoy thrillers occasionally. It is a rare gift to have an adventure and learning experience in which nothing terrible or negative arises. You smile with a warmed heart. It is remarkably educational too and I know animals well!

This is a very uplifting, pleasant story that permeates with warmth and positive feelings all through. A boost of this kind of decent energy is what people need much more of, even though I enjoy thrillers occasionally. It is a rare gift to have an adventure and learning experience in which nothing terrible or negative arises. You smile with a warmed heart. It is remarkably educational too and I know animals well!

This is a pleasure! A translation of Christiane D'Aoust's adventures featuring her, her husband Steve, and their cat Gem-Bem in their rural home of Québec. Our home with our cat children is the woods too! It was not easy to determine if this was a dual release. The first page yields a French-phrased address, which needed no switching. There is no need to invent strife. I love entirely happy, friendship reading!

I have abandoned no awful book but nearly did! I could praise the intricacy and originality of this plot. This duo obviously created a long-standing mystery magazine in their fictional name. I could certainly cut cringy things about the times a break. 1929 isn't the problem, except killing a rabbit! A test for one case! The writing sucks most of all. A "gentle" blowtorch in a throat? I loathe their writing!!!

I am halfway through. Police handling, including of women, is horrendous. Taking into consideration 1929, I am certain New York / American police officers of that time had a code of conduct too. I doubt they were allowed to be physically rough with anyone they were merely interrogating, even if antsy about safety with potential perps. Certainly not people merely hesitating to answer quesitons, nor their houseman!

We have finally left the location of the first scene! Gosh, was that boring. Unfortunately I have fallen asleep quickly, been busy, or only gone through a few pages per night. I will make a big dent tonight and finish as fast as I can. I make a quota for myself of 150 books per year. I must hit 75 books by the end of June for it to be feasible. After this novel, I can catch-up, by solely choosing genres I love!

The principal characters, at 82 pages, still have not left the theatre from which a story was supposed to be spurned! They are still talking about the mystery instead of going to their homes or out into New York, to give us a novel! This is shockingly boring. The writers seemed to think we would be impressed with police roughness and a barrage of useless descriptions! I don't care if Robert Queen wiped his mouth!

Even knowing Ellery Queens would be the most typical of the typical American "crime-based mystery", I hoped there would be some magical genius that would draw me in. Maybe I will love it. Maybe other novels are better and less indulgent writing-wise. My goodness, we hear enough about hands in pockets and police barking orders. At 62 pages we have not even left the theatre! I am not excited to reprise this novel.

I don't know how much I will like this novel or duo. I see it is as I expected in one way. as textbook as it can get, in the tone of detective fiction. This is the form of "mystery" I like least of all. Not truly MYSTERIOUS. A businesslike police case. However as a lover of mysteries, even if this is the least creative type for me, I want to sample pioneers of this branch. I am sure to appreciate some aspects.

What do you know: I have made it well past the half of this novel. The bare details and structures feel like a carbon copy with "The Black Dudley Murders" by Margery Allingham!

I see the tips that this is not Ngaio's best, as indeed first novels would not be and that we merely ought to enjoy this typcial crime mystery frolic. I will forever prefer non-crime mysteries for the excitement and creative originality of actual MYSTERIOUSNESS!!!!!!! That is whence we obtain the very word, "mystery"! Dare to fabricate adventures that are not reliant upon solving a criminal case, dear authors!!!!!

If I still enjoy an author at or after sojourn 3, I remain a fan; hence my new "Gentle Spectrums" category "Is The Third Time A Charm". Third books with authors are turning points. I loathed volume 2. This one stepped back up, other than a baby robin and duck dying and more incorrect nature portrayals (bears, bird eggs). I soared across 332 pages! Three Pines does NOT receive less attention than Armand's moles.

I loved Louise's first novel but detested the second. Twice discussing euthanasia pissed me off. Secondly, the whole concept of mere -10C having the effects she exeplified surprised me knowing she is Canadian. Herein, she has bears wrong. You see exceptions like garbage dumps because the lure is still there. Their mindset is to eat what they find and move on. They would not return expecting more chocolate eggs!

Wonderful! I scored this 1979 treasure at a charity sale today. I nearly did not buy it because the edge of the outside cover is torn. I chose to because I had not heard of this book by Margaret Laurence and know her children's stories are rare. Apparently they don't lack infamy! It seems this is a beloved classic, even with a movie! An authoress from my own prairie province, Manitoba. What a compelling story.

This is better than Walter Karig's first in place of Mildred A. Wirt. It bodes well. When I think of the quality of the plot, the content is frivilous. Residents already known to be culpable keep trying to steal large items, which is stupid. A thief would rob places he is unknown and unnoticed! Notably, it is not true to Bess & George to snub Nancy over a relative's will. However I must say I am breezing along.

Hmm. Five stars might indeed be my feedback. After some factual-sounding recitation, Helen Y. Rolfe went back to featuring these extraordinary, hearty, spunky women in the tone of stories. They aren't of any length; chronologically describing their childhoods and everything leading up to their noteworthy exploits and after. However biographies would not give the glimpse of these many. She describes key moments.

I am enjoying this book so much, I am whizzing through it and absorbing decades of Canadian triumphs. nerve, and accomplishments easily. They are an honour to learn. If I bestow Helen Y. Rolfe fewer than five stars, it might only be because authors of these "Incredible Stories" history features need to steer away from recounting events like gathered facts. Only Sharon Wood's history was really weaved into a story.

Canada has not yet had a Green Party government. Seeing TWO PRIME MINISTERS endorse this book, I recognized the extraodinary praise: they had to come from different parties! Paul Martin & Joe Clark. Good grief, author Farley Mowat is Victoria Cate's Godfather? Jane Goodall played with her as a baby? Bill Clinton wrote Elizabeth's recommendation letter for Canadian law school? What a lady and an excellent book!

If I save intellectual books for bed, I have fallen asleep far earlier than planned for my reading sessions. I will feel accomplished to finish this important, highly informative missive by Elizabeth May, today! I have learned a lot! I am no longer unaware of key politics, such as how Canada's election system needs to improve, which I hope Justin Trudeau changes as intended. I also now know global warming basics.

I see how supressing Stephen Harper was and that climate change is no debatable possibility. He killed the progress Kyoto was making, for all United Nations! Denial campaigns were strong enough that I too, wondered how certain scientific results are. Ice core bubbles tell us atmospheric carbon dioxide didn't pass 280 parts-per-million for a million years. We are the first Earth beings to breathe air with 410 PPM!

Instruction in how governments work that I am glad to have. This was made autobiographical along the way, thus very good reading even though I need to absorb several patches slowly. Training braincells to learn social concepts. Some still failing to make sense, given a political group's stupidity in arguing useless notions forward. I feel that commonsense would sing out clearly if people read this knowledge book.

I sought to acquaint the lady for whom we vote. This book validates us. Many more like Elizabeth May's grace, intellect, experience, and determination than dare vote for her due to this party being small;
erroneously believing votes should and can block unwanted big parties. I learned that is not how "first past the post" works. Our system counts provincial seats won, not all of our votes! Best to truly choose.

I knew our country was impacted for too many years by Stephen Harper's dictatorship style, whom I greeted with an open heart because here at last was a prairie prime minister. Always one for detail, Elizabeth explains the fast damage of his arrival. Pushing out prime minister Paul Martin and Canada's Kyoto accord contract, right after all in the United Nations fought tough odds to make membership a legal agreement!

I knew Canada's green party leader was American, her parents moving them to Nova Scotia. It is magical there! I did not know her Mom was an activist; against nuclear testing etc. She knew Bill & Hillary in university, whose daughter acquainted them. How cool is this? Elizabeth's letter of recommendation to law university in Halifax, was from future US president Bill Clinton! Highly connected in both countries.

I knew Canada's green party leader was American, her parents moving them to Nova Scotia. It is magical there! I did not know her Mom was an activist; against nuclear testing etc. She knew Bill & Hillary in university, whose daughter acquainted them. How cool is this? Elizabeth's letter of recommendation to law university in Halifax, was from future US president Bill Clinton! Highly connected in both countries.

Startling information about my homeland. Full of heart and pride but examining how bad Stephen Harper's very long administration was for us, which certainly felt like a dictatorship, is scary. I look forward to learning more about Elizabeth May, our ideal leader if only people would stop hesitating to elect a presently small party. I thought she must be vegetarian but how nice, to confirm she is. :)

Writers need to skip euthanasia remarks. Against my beliefs, it rattles me to see lesser circumstances in which some thought it acceptable. Just say an animal eventually died, or bypass that fully and give us the stories of how they lived. In his first cat book, Cleveland Amory said he hated books that end with a subject's death; a buzz kill! In every other way, Marta's highly educational book lifts our spirits.

I am enjoying Ellery Adams' book tremendously now, from all kinds of perspectives. Thank you for fine fiction, Ellery! :)

I read a little further and my enjoyment grew a great deal more. Watching everyone prepare for a storm and help clean after it, held my interest. Olivia's caring investment in her friend, Laurel is one of my favourite tones. Mutually shedding her trivial relationship with Flynn has my admiration too. Especially that she did it for herself, independently of recognizing that she begins to feel something for Sawyer.